Email tells feds to make sequester as painful as promised

Okay so when government workers saw that they could lessen the pain of the sequester they get a memo ordering them not to do it: We told them it would be devastating so make it devastating. Don’t make it look like we are contradicted ourselves.

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This is no surprise to anyone familiar with Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals ~ create chaos, then isolate, demonize and blame your opponent for the chaos. How to spark unrest and revolution. This was all known in 2007 to be his methodology yet we chose to elect him~ now like Paul in the stormy boat we need to provide some kind of solutions.

The Obama administration denied an appeal for flexibility in lessening the sequester’s effects, with an email this week appearing to show officials in Washington that because they already had promised the cuts would be devastating, they now have to follow through on that.

He said he was discouraged by officials in Washington, who gave him this reply: “We have gone on record with a notification to Congress and whoever else that ‘APHIS would eliminate assistance to producers in 24 states in managing wildlife damage to the aquaculture industry, unless they provide funding to cover the costs.’ So it is our opinion that however you manage that reduction, you need to make sure you are not contradicting what we said the impact would be.”“This email confirms what many Americans have suspected: The Obama administration is doing everything they can to make sure their worst predictions come true and to maximize the pain of the Sequester cuts for political gain,” said Rep. Tim Griffin, Arkansas Republican.

Mr. Brown, the official who sent the email and who is eastern regional director for wildlife services at APHIS, didn’t immediately return a call Tuesday afternoon seeking comment.